Hero Cop Punished for Trying to Bring Down Pedophile Priest Wins Settlement
A detective in Australia was forced out of his job and denied his pension by officials at the police department after he tried to bring a pedophile priest to justice. He lived a meager life for some time after that… but all that has finally changed.
Denis Ryan received a confidential settlement amount from the state government of Victoria after advocates spread his story. It only came nearly five decades after his bosses, who happened to be devout Catholics, punished him for trying to prosecute a priest.
Nearly 50 years ago, when he was a detective on the police force in Victoria, Australia, he tried to tell his superiors that a prominent priest, Monsignor John Day, was sexually assaulting and molesting altar boys and Catholic school girls. Ryan had interviewed 12 alleged victims by 1972, taking statements from all of them.
He was punished far worse than the priest, who was ultimately transferred to a different parish outside of Victoria. That priest is now dead, but Ryan is alive and well at 86 years old.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...indicated/
A detective in Australia was forced out of his job and denied his pension by officials at the police department after he tried to bring a pedophile priest to justice. He lived a meager life for some time after that… but all that has finally changed.
Denis Ryan received a confidential settlement amount from the state government of Victoria after advocates spread his story. It only came nearly five decades after his bosses, who happened to be devout Catholics, punished him for trying to prosecute a priest.
Nearly 50 years ago, when he was a detective on the police force in Victoria, Australia, he tried to tell his superiors that a prominent priest, Monsignor John Day, was sexually assaulting and molesting altar boys and Catholic school girls. Ryan had interviewed 12 alleged victims by 1972, taking statements from all of them.
He was punished far worse than the priest, who was ultimately transferred to a different parish outside of Victoria. That priest is now dead, but Ryan is alive and well at 86 years old.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...indicated/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"